1. FEN 2012-08-011 Welcome Presentation Seminar overview Seminar: Introduction to relational databases

2. Presentation Finn E. Nordbjerg (B.Sc., M.Sc., Cert. Ed.) fen@ucn.dk Senior lecturer at UCN External lecturer at Department of Computer Science, University of Aarhus. Programming, Databases, Algorithms and Data Structures, Programming Languages, Software Design and Architecture, Formal Methods. Sailboat and vacations in France. FEN 2012-08-012

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6. This seminar: Introduction to relational databases: FEN 2012-08-016 TimeSubjectMaterials and Readings Tuesday, Oct. 2 nd 13:30 – 15:15 Introduction to the database field:  Applications, concepts and terminology Introduction to the Relational Model:  Tables, tuples, keys, foreign keys [1]: Chap. 1 and 2. [1]: Chap. 3.1. Tuesday, Oct. 2 nd 15:30 – 17:15 Realisation of the relational model:  Simple SQL queries  Table definitions, primary and foreign key constraints  Basic INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE in SQL [1]: Chap.4.3. [1]: Chap. 4.1 and 4.2. [1]: Chap.4.4. Wednesday, Oct. 3 rd 8:00 – 9:45 Conceptual modelling:  Entity-Relationship model Transformation from ER models to relational schemas [1]: Chap. 7.1 – 7.6. [1]: Chap. 8.1. Wednesday, Oct. 3 rd 10:00 – 11:45 Relational database design  Design guidelines  Normalization [1]: Chap. 14.1. [1]: Chap. 14.2 – 14.5. [1]: R. Elmasri & S. B. Navathe: Database Systems – Models, Design, and Application Programming. Sixth Edition. Pearson 2011. Other standard textbooks on database systems may also be used.

7. Materials http://public.ucn.dk/fen/angers/ FEN 2012-08-017